On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:40, Steve Thorpe wrote: > Greetings, > > I upgraded an RH7.1 box to FC1 and it went fairly smoothly. > One thing I noticed after the upgrade though -- it was > still using lilo and grub hadn't been installed. So I > installed & attempted to configure grub, with only partial > success - it manages to boot to the grub> prompt but then > it waits for me to manually finish the boot procedure by > entering these commands by hand: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp root=/dev/hda5 > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img > boot > > I really really want this to be automated at bootup! > There must be something really simple that I am missing - > right? Any advice would be very much appreciated. Some > more info on how I installed follows FYI. > > Thanks a lot, > My best guess is that /boot has not been set up properly. Did you give it a separate partition when you installed? If you did, put it on its own partition, there should be a reference to it in your /etc/fstab and that needed to be mounted when you ran the grub-install command. Scott
